Control over student reading is responsible

In response to your editorial, "Banning books is bad for the future of our country," I think giving teachers the license to issue any book of their choosing, which could have a deleterious effect on the minds of our children and seems to be what you're advocating, is bad for the future of our country.

I agree that our children need to be exposed to other perspectives, as well as learn to think with open minds about the issues of the day, but there ought to be discretionary boundaries for making the best and most appropriate choices of reading materials with which to accomplish these goals.

If that is "building a bubble," as you put it, please tell me what's wrong with parents and teachers doing this for our children until they are ready to make their own independent reading choices. It seems entirely appropriate and responsible to me.